[yocto] Removing busybox

[Burton, Ross]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 18:45, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> OK, so I've kicked things a bit harder again, and here's what I see as
> the (small) rub.
> $ git grep hddimg meta/conf/
> meta/conf/machine/include/x86-base.inc:IMAGE_FSTYPES ?= "hddimg"
>
> So yes, we can do a test with qemux86/qemux86-64 and documenting this in
> local.conf.sample is good (and a packagegroup that gives more 1:1
> functionality is on my TODO list somewhere).  But it's also true that
> we'll get people with "I can't remove busybox and I tried what it says"
> posts since blindly pulling in hddimg gives at least:
> ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'busybox-mdev' (but
> /home/trini/work/OE/oe-core/meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/initramfs-framework_1.0.bb
> RDEPENDS on or otherwise requires it)
>
> That's the point I want to make, after throwing out a quick test build
> dir.

Sure, so the instructions include "don't use hddimg" until we've a way
of not using busybox in the initramfs.

Ross